From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Felipe Contreras" Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:11:26 +0300 Message-ID: <94a0d4530808290911j32bf5ee0q869dfe39483297f8@mail.gmail.com> References: <18219E52-E56F-43D9-B28D-0CC74E225CC5@cs.indiana.edu> <7BC51BEC-E230-48C5-BD3E-2CECE3C7FC98@cs.indiana.edu> <20080828195211.GA3545@mithlond.arda.local> <4B9831F7-3CB8-49CB-A1DB-111481A271FE@cs.indiana.edu> <20080828212346.GA27867@coredump.intra.peff.net> <1C144B19-DA21-4CB4-B872-C1F154B031CF@cs.indiana.edu> <20080828215907.GE27867@coredump.intra.peff.net> <3DE083DB-ADFF-45E7-B3EB-A76985941271@cs.indiana.edu> <881C17DA-2FE2-49A7-A4A9-FACA7720599C@cs.indiana.edu> <20080829152451.GA20629@yugib.highrise.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Perry Wagle" , "Jeff King" , "Teemu Likonen" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Petr Baudis" , "Kristian H??gsberg" , "Matthias Kestenholz" , "Steven Rostedt" , "Ulrich Windl" , "Andi Kleen" , "Johannes Schindelin" , "Junio C Hamano" , "David Woodhouse" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Aidan Van Dyk" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 29 18:12:46 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KZ6aQ-0001kt-Uh for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:12:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752535AbYH2QL2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:11:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753195AbYH2QL2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:11:28 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.228]:57145 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752195AbYH2QL1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:11:27 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id k40so942001rvb.1 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:11:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=JfvWZZFcnbRABciPvzjKAxjtZUSpzFpAZi1RrDS42aA=; b=QBq3Mv40F+xpebXRZLOBuarsX0ajUx2H+gVS54DWOQn0RJS/3tDAjIJZ8CAqedPS3n lV5764P9WEfyjmnuiqgTc6O93cFGN26fTfKdUA4Orz0XV2j0SBoWeALff4ihE2iFpkyU zbNJXGEL0/C56uNIje2wA0TgKZw+aUbkeQsVc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=T73LRqjBCAQIDAErfFmkGrNK1srLIWUTBWAxPP3SIZSl7eCetw2hkVfkkIW/1iVN27 7Sk1mqbN6LvLzOs6Ret29OYQSmzr0q/+50FkdTJtXEd0SG924iLML4AOSbnpOdym/Cte RYo1K5/Z7+aRbisxWI/F6wofscbOhGb4MnYFU= Received: by 10.141.197.14 with SMTP id z14mr1585296rvp.283.1220026286531; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:11:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.166.19 with HTTP; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:11:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080829152451.GA20629@yugib.highrise.ca> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Aidan Van Dyk wrote: > * Perry Wagle [080801 00:00]: >> Jeff King has convinced me that it's perfectly legitimate to introduce >> non-upward compatibilities in minor version releases of "young" >> software. > > This is the gist of the problem. You keep hammering about a > "non-upwards compatibilities in minor version releases", yet you have > *not* pointed out one such in-compatibility in a minor version release.. > > Remember, in git, 1.6 is a "major version" release, with release notes, etc. > 1.5.X is a "minor version" release. > 1.5.X.Y is a "patch" release. What is X (2.0)? -- Felipe Contreras